Santa cruz:

[maus]

yes! im so excited to go squat the woods there next month.

 

[nobo]

watch out for all the vampires!

 

[macks]

hell yeah santa cruz is one of my favorite destinations. homebums aplenty but lots of cool kids too. dont let people spook you about the cops sweeping the woods there, we slept 2 nights behind the trailer park without any hassles, in a pretty obvious spot. if you find somewhere more discreet you could stay for years! FNB on wednesday in the market. have fun!

 

[nobo]

ohhhhh the trailer park! that is probably one of the greatest things about santa cruz. good people aplenty.

 

[MissSpiritualTramp]

I'm so down to go there. My friend goes to UCSC.

 

[bani]

i'm heading up there this fall/winter from nyc (leaving tomorrow). anyone else stiff there/heading down there?

 

[shitbagdanny]

whenever im in santa cruz i wind up stayin under the brindges down there

 

[mylon]

the woods work, and i've heard there's a couple redwoods big enough to sleep in. otherwise, if you're seeking shelter from the rain, you either have to hit up the bridges or go pretty far out of downtown. oh yeah, and they just enacted a bunch of new ordinances lately about where you can spange and shit like that.. make sure you check out these rules beforehand because sometimes they will ticket without a warning.

 

[bikegeek666]

i kinda want to go there. i don't know anyone, but i want to squat the woods and learn some shit from people who've been doing it...

 

[brute]

inexperienced, but im down!

 

[IBRRHOBO]

there's an old time polo field called 'Pogonip' killer camping but watch out for the Poison Ivy. It is rated the worst on the west coast! i caught it and finally, even after prednizone, had to go to the ocean and scratch the shit open to dry it out!

 

[bikegeek666]

inexperienced, but im down!

yeah, i've got a fair bit of book-larnin', but i need to spend some time in the woods to use it.

though i've had to adjust a lot of my learning with leaving portland and coming to ca. my foraging skills have gone way down since the flora have changed so much.

 

[maus]

the woods are full.
and we have killer homebums.
its about time scz spun off and spawned a new woodsy scene somewhere else, anyway. santa barbara???

ps. my new haus:

 

[freepizzaforlife]

ill be in santa cruz january 13th, can anyone show me around?

 

[ariel418]

I live in Santa Cruz in my van right now. I used to sleep out in the woods near Harvey West Park. Eventually the cops found me & my friends camp. Kind of broke up our happy little family there. Oh well, I am trying to get out of Santa Cruz now. It is too damn cold. I have been freezing every night even though I am in a van out of the weather. If anyone knows of an Anarchist household or something I can live in let me know. :mummy:

 

[maus]

asking random people to take you in and stuff when you dont really have any personal info posted.... does that usually work out for yall?

 

[nobo]

im pretty sure there are hell of awesome woodsy communities all over the place, santa cruz is just blown up right now. its kind of exciting to see people squatting out there in the winter tho, usually it get super crowded in the summer then dies down around this time as everyone heads for warmer weather.
maus, it looks like youve got a pretty tight spot. pretty close to campus tho if im not mistaken....? ive seen some really awesome squats out there and of course some that are just huge piles of litter. bummer.
does anyone know the penalty for getting caught squatting in the woods? fines? or just a slap on the wrist. never really heard of it happening til this thread came up.

 

[maus]

my haus is well-hidden... dont you worry about it.

on ucsc campus, supposedly its a $100+ camping ticket. i dont know about elsewhere, there are all kidns of different statutes by local jurisdiction; the city of santa cruz has its own no-sleeping ordinance for instance.

 

[maus]

wait, poison ivy, dont you mean poison oak?
pogonip is homebumland , what i heard.

 

[weshatesnh]

it's easy as pie to sleep around uc santa cruz, and the food in the dining hall is great . When the levee is dry it's not a bad spot, otherwise finding some bushes was all i needed there, watch for packs of raccoons! also, hitching around town is a local norm, which makes getting around cheap and relatively interesting.